Beer and Breweries

Booklist

All About Beer
If you like drinking beer and thinking beer, then these books are for you.
Included are books about breweries, about the history of beer, about brewing your own beer and growing your own beer ingredients.

Bryson, Lew
Pennsylvania Breweries
PENNA TX950.57.P4 B79 2010
Now in its 4th edition, this guide covers the growing brewery industry in Pennsylvania. It started out with 48 breweries and brewpubs and now covers 75. You can check updates on the book at LewBryson.com or read this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article: Beer: Get local with Bryson (11/11/2010).

Denny, Mark
Froth!: The Science of Beer
TP577.D476 2009
Denny, a physicist by training and a homebrewer by inclination, introduces the physics of beer that will aid other homebrewers in improving their beer-making processes.

Ogle, Maureen
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
TP577.O46 2006
"In this first-ever history of American beer, Maureen Ogle tells its epic story, from the German immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it." (Book jacket)

The Oxford Companion to Beer
This monumental reference, compiled by Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, contains more than you could ever know about beers, breweries, brew processes and brewmasters.

Yenne, Bill
The American Brewery: from Colonial Evolution to Microbrew Revolution
TP573.U6 Y46 2003
This lavishly designed history tells the story of American brewing through wars, tax hikes, Prohibition, consolidation, depression, recession, and the microbrewery boom that revived the industry beginning in the late 1980s. Includes archival and modern imagery and photos.

Videos

The American Brew: The Rich and Surprising History of Beer
DVD TP573.U6 A443 2009x
This 2007 documentary explores the evolution of beer throughout the centuries and how beer became America's favorite drink. Anheuser-Busch commissioned “The American Brew,” as part of its “Here’s To Beer” industry development campaign, unveiling it on the anniversary of the repeal of prohibition.

Beer Wars: Brewed in America
(DVD) HD9397.U52 B4294 2009x
This documentary by Anat Baron explores the U.S. beer industry, focusing on the stuggles of microbreweries to compete with the large corporations.

Brewed in America
(DVD) HD9397.U52 B73 2006x
This 1997 History Channel documentary traces the history of beer making in America, from the original Sam Adams to Carrie Nation to the universally recognized Bud Light.

PCN tours. Latrobe Brewing Company, Latrobe, PA
DVD) HD9397.U54 L37 2008x
This 2002 documentary by the Pennsylvania Cable Network tours the Latrobe Brewing Company when it was still producing its signature beer: Rolling Rock. In 2006, its owner, the conglomerate InBev, sold the Rolling Rock brand to Anheuser-Busch. Now it is operated by City Brewing and produces Iron City...

Duquesne Brewing Company
Following the tradition of the original Duquesne Brewing Company founded in 1899 and closed in 1972, the new Duquesne Brewing Company resurrected Duquesne Pilsener in 2010, brewed by City Brewing Company at the Latrobe Brewing Plant, the old home of Rolling Rock. The site includes an interesting history of the brewery in Pittsburgh.

East End Brewing Company
This microbrewery in Homewood began operation in 2004 and offers growlers during limited hours. The website also lists local beer events coming up.

Pennsylvania Brewing Company (Penn Brewery)
Pennsylvania Brewing Company, founded in 1986 by Tom Pastorius to brew authentic German beers, was the first craft brewer in Pennsylvania and a pioneer in the microbrewery movement. Located on the North Side, their brews include Penn Pilsner, Penn Dark and Gold Lager, Oktoberfest and Weizen Bier -- just like the Weissbier in Munich!

Stoneys Beer (Jones Brewing Company)
One of the historic Pennsylvania breweries, Jones Brewing Company is located in the town of Smithton, Pennsylvania and produces Stoney's. Shirley Jones of the musicals is from this family.

Rivertowne
A brewpub with locations on the North Shore, in Monroeville, Verona and North Huntington.

Lancaster Brewing Company
Located in Lancaster, PA, Lancaster Brewing Company is a microbrewery that produces Gold Star Pilsner, Milk Stout, and Amish Four Grain Pale Ale, among others.

Lion Brewing Company
Originally The Luzerne County Brewing Company, founded in 1905, it was renamed The Lion Brewery in 1933. In 1974, when the Stegmaier Brewery closed, it acquired their family of brews. It also produces Pocono lagers and ales. It is located in northeastern Pennsylvania in Wilkes-Barre.

Penn Museum: Patrick McGovern, Beer Archaeologist
Patrick McGovern is the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. He explores the archaeology of beer, as related in this Smithsonian Magazine article: The Beer Archaeologist, and recreates ancient brews with Dogfish Head Brewery.

Pennsylvania Beer Alliance
The PBA is an incorporated, non-profit, trade association made up of franchised beer wholesalers licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to purchase and sell malt or brewed beverages as importing distributors. This is a trade association of beer distributors, generally lobbying for maintaining the restriction of beer selling in Pennsylvania.

Nearby States

Flying Bison Brewing Company
Flying Bison Brewing Company is a twenty barrel microbrewery located in Buffalo, New York, that produces Dawn Patrol Gold, Aviator Red, and Blackbird Oatmeal Stout. Flying Bison is now available in Western New York, Central NY, Massachusetts, and Eastern PA....

Genesee Brewery
Located in Rochester, New York, they've been brewing beer since 1878!

Great Lakes Brewing Company
A Cleveland, Ohio, brewery that produces Dortmunder Gold, Eliot Ness, Burning River Pale Ale, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, The Holy Moses, Conway's Irish Ale, Christmas Ale, Moondog Ale, and Locktender Lager. The Great Lakes' new brewery is located just across the street from their original brewpub in the historic Ohio City District, just minutes from downtown Cleveland.

Shmaltz Brewing Company
A New York brewery that brews He'brew beers and Coney Island Craft Lagers. Try their Bittersweet Lenny's R.I.P.A.

Web Sites

CraftBeer (formerly BeerTown)
From the Association of Brewers, an 18-year-old nonprofit organization devoted to the collection and dissemination of beer and brewing information on both amateur and commercial levels

Craft Beer Radio
Craft Beer Radio is an Internet talk show about craft and micro brewed beers. The goal of the show is to introduce people to craft beer, teach them about different beer styles and the brewers that make them, and beer history.

Great American Beer Festival
An annual tasting and judging event put on by the Association of Brewers. You can see past winners in all categories.